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   all of my pain (and all your excuses) by spinachgarden

   Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types  

   • Mature
   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • Gen
   • Complete Work

   17 Oct 2025

   Tags

   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • Tim Drake & Dick Grayson & Jason Todd & Bruce Wayne & Damian Wayne
   • Bruce Wayne
   • Dead Martha Wayne and Thomas Wayne
   • Grief/Mourning
   • Non-Linear Narrative
   • Childhood Trauma
   • Hurt Bruce Wayne
   • Canonical Character Death
   • Complicated Parent Bruce Wayne

   Summary

   There is a boy kneeling in an alleyway. The blood on his knees is warm, and not his own. He does not cry. Not yet. That will come later.

   (Not quite. Go back a bit further.)

   Shaking hands pull a trigger once, twice. BANG. BANG. A young boy watches pearls scatter across the street.

   (That's not quite correct, is it?)

   Series

   • Part 3 of spinachgarden's whumptober 2025

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   1,067

   Chapters:

   1/1

   Comments:

   12

   Kudos:

   26

   Bookmarks:

   4

   Hits:

   413

   Bookmarked by Livilloyd

   03 Apr 2026

   Bookmarker's Notes

   “There are pearls laying untouched in a safe in Wayne Manor…”

    

   “There is a Mission.”

    

   This was absolutely haunting.
   Honestly, I don’t even have the words.
   Read it again.

   Read it with the song “Lilac (Excerpt)” by Kevin McLellan playing on repeat in the background for maximum effect.